Bloom Archives
Category: Food & Drink
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The Village Deli, Eat and Get Out—Or Not!
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR You’ve got to love a restaurant whose motto is “eat and get out.” The original Village Deli was tiny but cozy…
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Like an Old Favorite Song, Patrons Can’t Get Enough of Breakfast at Uptown Café
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It was 1976, Bloomington, Indiana. The food scene was just heating up, and 26-year old Michael Cassady was in the thick…
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The Trojan Horse, Still Riding High
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It’s the only live-action food show in town. Stand on the corner of Kirkwood and Walnut and try not to drool…
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The Story Inn, Well Worth the Ride
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Story, Indiana, isn’t on the way to much of any place. If you aren’t deliberately going there, you are unlikely to…
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The Irish Lion: A True Pub—and Restaurant to Boot
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR You’ve got to love a restaurant whose signature dish sounds like a warm hug from an Irish grandma. Talk about comfort…
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Scholars Inn: For Fine Food and Romance
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It might have been made for romance. Secluded, cozy, intimate, the Scholars Inn Gourmet Café and Wine Bar sits on a…
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Restaurant Tallent: “A Contemporary American Jewel”
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Big-city restaurant reviewers don’t routinely come down to Bloomington on business, but Chicago Tribune writer Phil Vettel had heard good things…
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Afghan Food: Exciting, Exotic, Haunting, A Cuisine Worth Trying
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Afghan food tantalizes the American palate like a half-remembered melody, at once exotic and familiar. Flavors we have learned to love…
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Tasting Menus: When the Chef has Carte Blanche
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Sometimes you just need to leave it to the chef. You would never tell a painter how to capture a sunset,…